Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. -
They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. -
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. -
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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
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- We are always the same age inside.
- It is very easy to love alone.
- When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
- A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
- The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.